“Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.”

—  Kóbó Abe, book The Woman in the Dunes

Part 2, Ch. 27
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

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